# Gravitas Securities

> Gravitas Securities is a VC fund in Toronto backing Mining and Health Care. See 87 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Total investments: 87
- Last investment: Jun 2022
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/portfolio-strategies-securities-inc/
- Website: http://www.gravitassecurities.com/

Gravitas Securities is a VC fund in Toronto focused on Mining and Health Care. A member of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada and the Canadian Investor Protection Fund.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$6.5M |
| Series A | $3M–$11M |
| Post-IPO Equity | $2M–$31M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mining | 12 | 14% |
| Health Care | 12 | 14% |
| Financial Services | 11 | 13% |
| FinTech | 6 | 7% |
| Software | 6 | 7% |

111 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Post-IPO Equity | 57 | 66% |
| Series A | 6 | 7% |
| Seed | 5 | 6% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 3 | 3% |
| Post-IPO Debt | 2 | 2% |

11 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Canada | 54 | 62% |
| United States | 10 | 11% |
| China | 1 | 1% |
| India | 1 | 1% |
| Cambodia | 1 | 1% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Blayne Creed | President & CEO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blayne-creed-1d86 |
| Kia Besharat | Senior Managing Director & Head of Capital Markets Origination | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kia-besharat |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Parvis Invest | Parvis Invest is a direct-to-investor and technology-driven real estate investing platform. | $2.1M | Seed | Jun 02, 2022 |  |
| FUTR Corporation | Our mission is to make consumers financially well. | $3.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 10, 2021 |  |
| Xybion | Xybion provides unified all-in-one cloud solutions for R&D, lab systems, and workforce health. It has developed a digital acceleration cloud platform with end-to-end all-inclusive solutions for business processes for highly regulated industries with embedded quality and predictive compliance with real-time monitoring. | $1.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Sep 09, 2021 |  |
| Gravitas II Capital | Gravitas II Capital is a capital pool company that specializes in the identification and evaluation of businesses and assets to qualifying transactions. | $2.7M | Post-IPO Equity | Jul 02, 2021 |  |
| Gold Mountain | Gold Mountain is a mining company that focuses on the exploration, development, and production of the Elk Gold project. It engages in the personnel and operating plan to produce gold in the Canadian mining space. | $10M | Post-IPO Equity | Jun 08, 2021 |  |
| Pineapple | Pineapple specializes in mortgages, refinances, purchases, and private mortgages. The company utilizes cutting-edge cloud-based tools and AI-driven systems to enable its brokers. It offers purchases, refinancing, equity takeouts, debt consolidations, and renewals services for clients. |  | Series A | Jun 05, 2021 |  |
| WeSana Health | WeSana Health is a life sciences company that provides advancement of psilocybin-based medicine. The company was founded in 2020 by Daniel Carcillo and is headquartered in Homer Glen, Illinois, United States. | $12.8M | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 31, 2021 |  |
| EQIBank | EQIBank is global digital banking that provides traditional banking services for corporates and businesses. Instead of navigating multiple relationships in a fractured banking system, clients can manage their entire banking, trading, custody, lending, clearing, and settlement services for national currencies and crypto from a single interface.EQIBank is changing global banking with a seamless fusion of new technology and centuries of market experience that ultimately benefits clients with safety, security, lower costs and a single relationship for their national currency, crypto, and digital asset ecosystem.EQIBANK Aiming to become the dominant regulated and licensed bank for private and corporate clients, EQIBank’s founders and directors have over 240 years of combined experience in banking, financial services, exchanges, asset management and blockchain technology.EQIBank will open its first accounts in December 2018. | $10M | Series A | Mar 22, 2021 |  |
| Tokens.com | Tokens.com is a Proof-of-Stake technology company that enables investors to invest in digital assets that power decentralized finance in a simple and secure way. In the year 2020, Andrew Kiguel co-founded the company. | $25M | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 16, 2021 |  |
| Nano One | Nano One is a technology company that develops and licenses production processes for cathode active materials (CAM) used in lithium-ion batteries. It offers a patented One-Pot™ manufacturing method alongside its M2CAM® (metals direct to CAM) platform, designed to simplify cathode production, reduce energy and water consumption, and enable use ofdiverse metal feedstocks. The company partners with industry players across the battery supply chain to scale its processes and enable localized manufacturing of battery materials. It serves clients focused on electric vehicles, energy storage systems and portable electronics by providing cathode material solutions that aim to be more cost-efficient and supply-chain resilient. | $23.2M | Post-IPO Equity | Mar 16, 2021 |  |

10 of 87 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Canaccord Genuity Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/canaccord-genuity-corp) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Haywood Securities Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haywood-securities-inc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Beacon Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/beacon-securities) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Clarus Securities](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/clarus-securities) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Eight Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eight-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Paradigm Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paradigm-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Gravitas Securities invest in?

Gravitas Securities invests primarily in Mining, Health Care and Financial Services startups, most often at Post-IPO Equity and Series A stage. Most of the 87 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Canada. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Gravitas Securities's check size?

Gravitas Securities typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$6.5M at Seed, $3M–$11M at Series A and $2M–$31M at Post-IPO Equity. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gravitas Securities participates in.

### How do I contact Gravitas Securities?

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### Who are the partners at Gravitas Securities?

The team at Gravitas Securities includes Blayne Creed (President & CEO) and Kia Besharat (Senior Managing Director & Head of Capital Markets Origination). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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